Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001375Crossing the Ford
Inscriptions
Signed on reverse of canvas: "Geo. Inness 1848"
Provenance
Possibly American Art-Union, New York; possibly Henry E. Russell, Macon, GA, 1848 by distribution from the American Art-Union. Dr. John Kepke, Brooklyn, by c.1916; by descent to Edith K. MacDonald, Elk Grove, CA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.
Publications
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), p. 170, no. 36. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 25, pl. 11.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
- Date
- 1848
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 57.2 × 62.2 cm (22 1/2 × 24 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Edith Kepke MacDonald
- Accession no.
- 1977.487
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